Watch: The Roots React to the 50 Shades of Grey Trailer, Kind Of

It hasn't even been a week, but the 50 Shades of Grey movie trailer is already the Internet's most-watched film teaser of the year, having racked up over 36 million YouTube views in only five days. Depicting the budding sexual relationship between aspiring journalist Ana Steele and dapper entrepreneur Christian Grey (just like in the book!), the trailer's suggestive imagery and ominous eroticism have had the Internet abuzz since it was uploaded last Thursday, even though the actual film won't be released until Valentine's Day.

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Who hadn't seen it yet? The Roots.

Jimmy Fallon set out to right this wrong, however, by showing the trailer to some of the band members and filming their reactions. What Fallon didn't tell them was that he'd implanted a startling, shrieking image at just the point when the trailer should have sufficiently sucked in their attention to... well, basically to try to scare the shit out them. It worked, of course, and the reactions are priceless, especially those of Questlove and guitarist Kirk Douglas, who freaked out and threw his headphones off before quickly realizing he had just been had by Fallon. Watch below: